Keep in mind that you're a novice lifter for a longer period of time than you think you are. Novice lifting can last anywhere from a few months to a year or two, depending on how hard you hit the weights and where you started.

Once you've reached the point where you don't make regular progress on the SS program, you are ready to move on to the intermediate stage, which can last you for a good number of years. Find it HERE:

If you're a very advanced lifter (many, many years of CONSISTENT weight training), then there are lot of programs out there, and which one you pick is simply a matter of preference. If you're really that advanced, you should know what works for you and what doesn't by this point.

You can look good and still not be healthy. Where do you get your nutrients from? Or is it one all-inclusive meal?

While nutrients are important, I find those who are overweight really put way too much emphasis in meeting some magical nutrient number someone has told them about. It's pretty simple. Eat relatively healthy meals and not a lot. If you aren't hungry, don't eat. If you are hungry but just ate, fight through it. The body can be hungry and is normal and this has to happen to lose weight. You won't lose weight feeling full all the time. People think "starving" your body few a few hours is bad. It simply isn't. The talk about needing to eat all these small meals during the day is a huge myth.

Not to bash you luv but I hear this from coworkers all day because I don't eat at work. The continuous comments, "How do you not get light headed not eating all day!?" Or "That isn't healthy is it?"

I workout and am in shape....they are all fat/overweight and are asking me if it's healthy. I find the irony in that to be extremely noticeable but not sure why they don't see it.

I wasn't eating healthy when I was fat either. But the body needs nutrients. I didn't eat red meat for weeks, and Igot lightheaded a lot. Incorporated some red meat back into my diet, and I haven't had any problems.

If you don't eat, where do you get your energy? All powders and such? I don't mean to sound like an expert. I'm not. But not eating just doesn't make sense to me. That's all.

Define nutrients. What do you mean by this? Which nutrients, specifically?

I'm not asking you to patronize you or anything. I'm just asking so that you will think about it a little more carefully.

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If you don't eat, where do you get your energy?

If you are over 5% bodyfat (for men, 8% for women), you get it from fat. Under that, and your body eats its own muscle tissue. But under 5% is nearly impossible to maintain for any significant length of time without dying.

While nutrients are important, I find those who are overweight really put way too much emphasis in meeting some magical nutrient number someone has told them about. It's pretty simple. Eat relatively healthy meals and not a lot. If you aren't hungry, don't eat. If you are hungry but just ate, fight through it. The body can be hungry and is normal and this has to happen to lose weight. You won't lose weight feeling full all the time. People think "starving" your body few a few hours is bad. It simply isn't. The talk about needing to eat all these small meals during the day is a huge myth.

One day very soon, I will no longer be overweight, and then maybe people will stop telling me that's why I don't know what I'm talking about.